11.5-thing 5 (microblogging)

facebook! i love it. i have a mixture of different friends on there-camp, grade school, family, former and current coworkers, and former students and parents. i have not used it for work, just for personal connections.

twitter....i signed up for twitter back in the winter some time... just because i kept getting invites from my friends.... i didnt really use it.... then i was doing some research for our power to learn grant and i came across a bunch of educators that use it to post ideas and articles they have written or come across. i have asked techy questions and gotten help from a bunch of different people. i have posted some things about what i am doing but i mainly read it to see what info i come across. lately i have been getting a lot of adult content profiles asking to follow....i just signed on for the first time in over a week and there were 23 of them wanting approval. i know this can and does happen with email and other sites like this but if i were asking children to have an account, this would be an issue....


i dont know how using facebook/twitter in the elementary setting work. i was talking with a tech friend who asked why we dont use twitter for our school. i am not sure how that would work or go over. i am pretty sure if we used it, i would be the one responsible for posting and updating and i am not sure i want to take that responsibility on at the moment. its hard enough keeping our website up to date. as far as facebook, i think it could be used like a wiki. i know when i taught 5ht grade, even 3rd grade, the majority of my students had myspace profiles.... i know some have facebook now also... i just dont know how that could be monitored for class use since a lot of them spend so much time on it at home....maybe if a class group was set up?? my kids were wiki pros and i liked the control that i had over that... i just dont see that happening with facebook....

i dont think i really answered the question here.. ha